“Thank you all for coming. I  just remind you that there will be a Q&A after the film. Please stick around“ To me, this sentence is so NYC. NYC has so many events where artists are invited to talk about their work. That is specially true for the movie business. Film Forum, the space for [...]

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The documentary about the September issue of Vogue is playing since yesterday in theaters. This issue is the most important of the year in terms of money. The magazine is thick like a bible because it has a lot of ads. Therefore, the staff works on it from spring. Though, the film did not get [...]

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The September Issue, documentary on Anna Wintour and her work at Vogue, as the editor in chief, is the talk of the town. It premiered wednesday at the MOMA and will be released in theater next Friday. Till a year ago, this powerful woman was distinct, secret and quiet but since a few month she [...]

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Lovely movie of Max Mayer about a love story between Adam, played by the cute Hugh Dancy, who has Asperger’s Syndrome, therefore he has trouble to acknowledge emotions and Beth, played by Rose Byrne. The movie doesnt’ have a happy ending but yet is a delightful comedy and got interesting insights on American values. Adam [...]

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A press screening of Public Enemies was held two days ago. I went with some expectations. Michael Mann followed the life of John Dillinger (Johnny Depp) that means basically Great Depression and rising of the FBI through the hideous John Edgar Hoover (Billy Crudup) fearing neither God nor man. Unfortunately the characters, even if they did [...]

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The award winners for the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival
* About Elly, Best Narrative Feature
* Racing Dreams, best doc
* Best director, Rune Denstad Langlo for North
* Ciarán Hinds, Best Actor in The Eclipse
* Zoe Kazan, Best Actress in The Exploding Girl
* Special Jury Mention, Defamation
* Best New Documentary Filmmaker: Ian Olds for Fixer
* Audience Award -Heineken- [...]

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When I got in the movie theater, the place got packed very quickly. This film is having a lot of press. It begins with P-Star Rising (Priscillia), a eight years old rapper, who is performing in a club in NYC with a hardcore rap crowd … I was all eyes. I couldn’t believe that this [...]

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Still at the Tribeca Film Fest…
1974 Kinshasa : Don King organized the exceptionnal boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman which brought Ali to be number One again. The documentary, When We Were Kings, shows beautyfully Ali trying to understand how he could beat Foreman instead of focusing only on the training. Eventually [...]

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If anything, this documentary is about New York. At the end of the day, as exceptionnal this city can be, money get the first seats. Even though, the CBGB – Country, Blue Grass and Blues- was a cultural landmark, where each musician could become who he was thanks to the amazing Hilly Kristal, his [...]

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A little, cute, lovely, funny and touching movie about an Italian family who lives on this Island on the Bronx and which members always avoid to share feelings and ideas. They rather be silent than expose their failure, doubt or passion to each other which create dreadful misunderstandings and sometimes funny ones.
Andy Garcia is a [...]

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